Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit

6 best books like Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit (Wayne F. Hill): The House with Chicken Legs, I Kill Giants, Supergirl: Being Super, The Creature of the Pines, My Rotten Life, A Girl in the Himalayas

The House with Chicken Legs

Author	Sophie Anderson
ISBN	1474940668

All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with.
But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian...

I Kill Giants

Author	Joe Kelly
ISBN	1607060922

This really grew on me. It had to. I started the book frustrated with Barbara, with her disconnect from the real world and total immersion in a fantasy world she's created, with her near inability to interact with the people around her. That's a bold thing that Kelly did, to start the reader off with an entirely...

Supergirl: Being Super

Author

Mariko Tamaki

She's super-strong. She can fly. She crash-landed on Earth in a rocket ship. But for Kara Danvers, winning the next track meet, celebrating her 16th birthday and surviving her latest mega-zit are her top concerns. And with the help of her best friends and her kinda-infuriating-but-totally-loving...

The Creature of the Pines

Author	Adam Gidwitz
ISBN	0735231702

Elliot Eisner isn't exactly excited about starting at a brand-new school in a brand-new town; he'd much rather stay at home and read a book. But things take an unexpected turn when he finds out his weird new teacher, Professor Fauna, has planned a field trip for Elliot's very first day. Along with a new...

My Rotten Life

Author

David Lubar

Ten-year-old Nathan Abercrombie is having a really bad day. First, Shawna Lanchester, the prettiest girl in his class, doesn't invite him to her party. Then he gets picked last in gym class. Things couldn't get any worse…until he gets doused with an experimental serum that turns him into a half-dead...

A Girl in the Himalayas

Author	David Jesus Vignolli
ISBN	1684151295

A young girl's presence threatens the peace of a magical sanctuary high in the Himalayas.

Beyond the peaks and valleys of the Himalaya Mountains lies a magical sanctuary. Protected from the chaos of man, it is home to immortal beings and mystical creatures. When Vijaya, a young human girl,...